Pretenders
They're in my way
The kind that fake every path
They latch onto anything critiqued cool
Attach themselves to fame that's passed
It's a drag every time I see you
Your weak stale words that you spew wide
Aping flair with all your hijacked ideas
Not a single thought that rings inside
I wasted all your mind inside mine
I wasted all my time inside mine
I got love if I choose to use it
I got time but just abuse it
Stuck lame in futile confusion
I sit wasted in this delusion
We wasted all our time inside mine
We wasted all our time inside mine
I wasted all your mind inside mine
You wasted all your time
Well that ain't mine
I got love but I don't deserve it
I got time but all I do is blow it
Stuck lame in futile confusion
I sit wasted in our delusion
I got love if I choose to own it
I got time but I just abuse it
Stuck watching futile confusion
As you waste away in delusion
I got love if I choose to use it
I got time but I just abuse it
Stuck lame in futile confusion
I sit wasted in this delusion
I got love if I choose to use it
I got time but I just abuse it
Stuck lame in futile confusion
I sit wasted in this delusion
TESS
Went walking in the sun
Felt all the rainfall
And you try to make friends but you've met them all already anyway
The sky was all diseased
You wanna lie down and go to sleep
Yeah go to sleep
Went dying on the moon
Felt empty and unfulfilled
Just said "whatever man I didn't feel a thing"
"I didn't feel a thing"
Have no future but it was all in your hands
The sky was all diseased
You wanna lie down and go to sleep
You wanna lie down and go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Went walking in the sun
Felt all the rainfall
And you try to make friends but you've met them all already anyway
The sky was all diseased
You wanna lie down and go to sleep
You wanna lie down and go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
You wanna lie down and go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
Go to sleep
STAN
Slow
Always the same
Everytime
Spit your word mouth games
It's almost in rhyme
You're right on the beat
Never disappoint
Painting obsolete
I fall away
You know we're glad you could make it
Please take a place
Let me explain it
The same only it comes to
It all turns into pieces without you
Move in
We want you to
All aboard
Where are we going now?
A long way ahead but it'll change it all
Just like before
Keep on keeping on
We'll make it out
We'll make it out
We'll make it out
We'll make it out
The midnight sun is setting on the TV screen
And the satellites keep sending out the silent beams
And there's a war raging in the street
Yeah there's a war raging in the street
The summer clouds are reflecting in the wet concrete
And the mission bells keep ringing from inside your dream
And there's a war raging in the street
Yeah there's a war raging in the street
The radio keeps pouring out an endless stream
And the summer rain is washing off your dirty feet
And there's a war raging in the street
Yeah there's a war raging in the street
Falling on self prescribed advice
Sinking slowly but I feel alright
Undone every scene by my own hand
But from what I can glean it won't be so bad
Asinine or exemplary fate?
Soon to discover in the process we are late
You are on a mission not my own
And by my solution
Left alone
Leave this tired state in my new ride
A spaceship built on borrowed time
And if you change your mind you're welcome to join
Come and live in the dreams of an ageing boy
You always make me smile
Yeah you always make me smile
But you always make me smile
Yeah you always make me smile
But you always make me smile
Yeah you always make me smile
But you always make me smile
You know you always make me smile
about
Friends In Noise, a new album of collaborations between Black Market Karma and friends: The Underground Youth, Les Big Byrd / Joakim Ahlund, Tess Parks, The Confederate Dead & Ruari Meehan. Here's a bit about the album and it's inception from Stan
"Friends In Noise is a record of collaborations that came to life in a pretty hands-off way, at least for the most part. I never set out to make this album, as in it wasn't something pre-meditated but through my travels with BMK, meeting and becoming friends with many great musicians, it was always inevitable.
It can be traced back as early as 2011, making up music on the fly in the studio with a close and old friend, Ruari Meehan. This groove came together and we recorded a VERY rough take of it with one mic in the middle of the room. Two guitar lines and no vocal melody or lyrics. I always felt there was really something there with that track but it ended up being shelved for years.
Jump to 2013 when I met Joakim Ahlund at a show his band mate Frans Johansson had organised for us in Stockholm. A few months later we toured around Ireland with their group Les Big Byrd, becoming good friends. Upon the release of our 5th album Jocke got in touch with me about the idea of remixing it's opening track 'Heady Ideas'
I loved what he did and decided to do my own remix of their song 'War In The Streets' in return.
The next stage of this thing happened when Tess Parks reached out about our music and told us she was coming to play in the UK. We organised a tour together and became friends (there's a theme here)
We often went to the studio to hang out in our down time between shows and ended up writing and recording some songs together, 'Sky Was All Diseased' being the track that made it onto Friends In Noise.
By this point I had 3 finished collaborations and decided to try and turn it into a full record, starting with the task of finishing that first song with Ruari. A melody and lyrics finally came to me and we got together to do a proper studio recording of 'Aping Flair'
The last piece came via two friends I'd known for a long time. Craig Dyer of The Underground Youth and Butchy Davy of The Confederate Dead. Craig and I had briefly mentioned the idea of making some music together in the past but it never came to be. He lives in Berlin so I contacted him and we made managed to make 'Wonky' happen over the web. Lastly Butchy came to the BMK studio with an unfinished, instrumental demo and we worked on it together. The result was Ageing Boy.
So in summary, Friends In Noise has technically been 9 years in the making and it feels pretty special to finally have it here"
credits
released January 13, 2023
1) Aping Flair - Black Market Karma & Ruari Meehan
supported by 9 fans who also own “Black Market Karma And Friends - Friends In Noise”
Love these first three songs! Heavy, yet layered kaleidoscopic textures with a heaping mounds of reverb to send your mind on a crazy psychedelic trip Tae The Moon! James Rinella
supported by 9 fans who also own “Black Market Karma And Friends - Friends In Noise”
Looking forward to my vinyl copy arriving soon. I love the music of Elephant Stone. This ep is excellent. A very original band. The mixing on this is superb. Steve Mahoney
L.A. band headed by longtime Ty Segall collaborator Chad Ubovich surge back from hiatus with a potent combo of psychedelia and heavy rock. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 10, 2024